langouste
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Etymology
Origin of langouste
French, from Old Provençal langosta, perhaps from Latin lōcusta lobster, locust
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Her "Modern Cookery For Teaching and the Trade: Volume 2" resounds with the minutiae of French dishes like salmis of pheasant and langouste à la parisienne.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
Better still are scampi, a kind of small crawfish, rather like tenderer and sweeter langouste.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
The descriptions of the lobster and the langouste are particularly minute, and the comparison or contrast between the two is drawn with elaborate precision.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
You take a cooking-pot and put your langouste in it, together with four spoonfuls of olive-oil, an onion and a couple of tomatoes, and boil away until he turns red.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Seated at a table for two in Jacob’s favourite corner at the Ritz grill-room, she ordered langouste with mayonnaise, a French chicken with salad, an artichoke, a vanilla ice, and some wonderful forced strawberries.
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three of these reservoirs are reserved for fish, the others for crustacea—lobsters and langoustes.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.
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